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Humans have been struggling to live on Frogmore for almost five centuries,
adapting themselves to punishing gravity and the deadly mistflowers that
dominate its ecology. Financier Inez Gauthier, patron of the arts and
daughter of the general commanding the planet’s occupation forces, dreams
of eliminating the mistflowers that make exploitation of the planet’s
natural wealth so difficult and impede her father's efforts to crush the
native insurgency. Fascinated by the new art-form of waterdancing created
by Solstice Balalzalar celebrating the planet’s indigenous lifeforms, Inez
assumes that her patronage will be enough to sustain Solstice’s art even as
she ruthlessly pursues windfall profits at the expense of all that has made
waterdancing possible.

Life unfolds in strange ways. You may encounter people from your past
living in your former apartments, or realize you have a penis as you engage
in war-dreams, or find a planet filled with ghosts that look exactly like
the ghosts back home. Is it possible they are the same as the ghosts back
home? Wherever you travel, you'll have to make tough decisions about the
aliens you may have harmed and the aliens who may harm you. Other Places,
Karen Heuler's latest story collection, follows travelers as the familiar
becomes strange, and the strange becomes life.

The lyrical gifts of Thomas, editor of the celebrated Dark Matter
anthologies, are on full display in this collection of poetry and short
fiction....She invokes the rhythms of African-American ring shouts and the
dense, humid atmosphere of the American South. Her stories include
reinventions of mythology, such as Medusa and Arachne ambushing the goddess
Athena in revenge in "Arachne & Medusa Jump Athena," and haunting modern
folktales about women with their roots in rivers (in "River, Clap Your
Hands") and swamp trees (in "Tree of the Forest Seven Bells"), with
references to recent natural disasters and human-created
pollution. Thomas's skill with poetry and prose is remarkable, and even the
shortest poems in this volume contain ideas and images that will linger in
the reader's mind.—Publishers Weekly, starred review, July 2016

The theme of this volume of the WisCon Chronicles was inspired by WisCon
39's Guest of Honor speeches by Alaya Dawn Johnson and Kim Stanley
Robinson. Johnson delivered a cri de coeur: “We need diverse stories, we
need a million mirrors of different shapes and sizes. Not just so we can
see ourselves. So that they can see us through our own eyes.” Robinson
exhorted: "We now need to institute global justice and equality for all,
for two reasons that bond together into a single reason: It's the right
thing to do morally, and it's the survival thing to do."

"Two Travelers is a magical evocation of the outsider experience, a book
that transports its characters to strange new worlds, where they must make
their way despite language barriers and culture shock. Sarah Tolmie's
lyrical prose guides readers through vividly imagined cultures where the
fate of a kingdom hangs on the outcome of a dance, or where, as your
family's size changes, so too must your name."
—A.M. Dellamonica, author of A Daughter of No Nation and The
Nature of a Pirate

The entire work is filled with magic, celebrating West Africans, Native
Americans, art, and love that transcends simple binary
genders. Hairston's novel is a completely original and stunning work.
—Publishers Weekly, April 2016

Roadsouls explores the power of art and creativity for transforming
not only one’s own life but also the world one lives in. “If you long for a
fantasy world that your senses could live in, read this book. Its backbone
is the wandering life of a sort of gypsy-hippie-circus group traveling a
pre-industrial landscape and offering a way out to the misfits and
throw-aways of the local villages."—Suzy McKee Charnas, author of
The Holdfast Chronicles

In this powerful debut collection, Rannu Award-winning poet Rose Lemberg
explores the deep-rooted fluidity of gender, tradition, language, and
desire in landscapes as familiar as high fantasy and as foreign as San
Francisco. By turns devastating and deeply hopeful, Marginalia to Stone
Bird writes a fearless commentary on our history and others.

Terran scholar Rachel Monteverde journeys to Aanuk, a paradisiacal planet
famous for both its beaches and the generosity of its nomadic
inhabitants. The aanukiens are not the only people on the planet, however:
Rachel is eager to meet the Fihdia, a cave-dwelling people who share a
congenital condition that makes them blind. Rachel's relentless
determination to communicate with them despite the Aanukien's dismissal and
the Fihdia's secretiveness will yield more than she ever hoped for.

"This is anthropological science fiction at its best, with only Ursula K. Le
Guin rivaling Arnason in cultural insight and in the sophistication,
complexity, and evocativeness of her worldbuilding. The hwarhath serve as a
distorted mirror in which we can clearly see our own follies, foibles,
peculiarities, and the inequalities of our society; the hwarhath,
meanwhile, see humans as a distorted mirror in which they can see the
peculiarities and inequalities of their own society."
—Gardner Dozois, Locus

Decades ago, Samuel R. Delany declared that “Merril…is perhaps the most
important intra-genre critic the field has had and…the absence of any of
her critical work in book form, in a field aspiring to take itself
seriously, is preposterous.… [O]ne cannot know the history of science
fiction from 1956 to 1969 if one has not read the brilliant commentary that
runs through Merril’s best-of-the-year anthologies for that period.” Now,
in 2016, Aqueduct brings Judith Merril and her place in that history to
today’s readers.

Earth has discovered it is not alone in the universe. The aliens—pink,
shapeless, and peaceful—are very nice, but after a string of failed
diplomatic missions, they ask Earth to stop with the crazies and send
someone normal. In frustration, the UN devises a lottery to pick the next
ambassador. Enter Rose Delancy, a Jersey waitress with a grudge against
pretty much the whole world...

"In Flesh & Wires Jackie Hatton shows us real women in extreme circumstances: survivors of disaster, traumatized and divided among themselves, with superhuman powers and all-too-human hearts. As they confront change, we witness their desperation, their hope, their need to discover the full range of their powers. A provocative and exciting debut."
—Julie Phillips, author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon

In A Field Guide to the Spirits, poetry becomes a means of time travel in which voices from the past offer insights, reveal secrets, transform our concept of now. These poems explore the interwoven pathways of ghost, memory, imagination, and desire. The spirits visited range from Caroline Herschel and Mary Shelley to Zane Grey and Dashiell Hammet, William Blake to Anne Hutchinson, John Keats to Isaac Newton's niece.